[R] Is this a documentation bug? Spss dates import

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Luca,
I ran your code using SPSS 17.0 and R 2.8.1.
I found that the correct date was returned in R using this code:

test.df$newdate <- as.Date(as.POSIXct(test.df$mydate , origin="1582-10-14"))  

Also note that SPSS 17.0 is case sensitive in storing variable names, so the
R code in your post needs to be changed from "test.df$MYDATE" to
"test.df$mydate" to match your use of lowercase in the SPSS syntax. 

Harold


Luca Braglia wrote:
> 
> Hello R-user
> 
> bug seekers are needed!
> In order to perform these simple tasks you have to use a copy of SPSS
> and obviously R....
> 

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